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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1977-01-26, Page 2BRUSSELS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1977 ONTARIO Serving Brussels and the surrounding community. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Dave Robb - Adv ising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association CNA Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $8.00 a year. Others $14.00 a year, Single Copies,20 cents each. • ISTAILMINED tert 4Brussels Post fivegotgrVer"""*. -----zt,4-4,7,4‘4*0 72g=o. mow- , ''..**111041gOklitiAk**Ak-oi.A4,A., , A-, Looking-south at Grieve's Bridge, Co. road 12, January 1977 Amen by Karl Schuessler It's your money Everybody is interested in the new Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, right? Wrong, if the attendance at Monday night's arena building corn ittee meeting is any indication. The orgar 3rs of the new community centre committee have been criticized a bit in the past for not doing all their business in the public eye. To try and remedy that criticism the arena committee has gone out of its way to let the public know that they're welcome at meetings, which are held the second last Monday of each month, in the fire hall in Brussels. All they got for their efforts this week, was an even smaller attendance than usual. We can't blame the lack of interest on the weather this time. This Monday was the first in several weeks that gave us decent driving and going out to a meeting weather. Judging from all the activities that have been going on in Brussels recently, it could be that those who are interested in our new community centre are just meeting-ed to death. But perhaps interest will be revived with the reminder that more than half a million dollars will be spent on the new Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. The committee hopes to be calling for tenders next month. There's room for volunteer help in many stages of the arena planning and there's room for interested citizens to express their opinions, not as harping criticism, but as helpful suggestion. It's up to you to attend the next, and future, arena committee meetings. To the editor Join the hunt All About Us and Heritage Canada invite the people of your community, and especially the students, to join the "Great Canadian Heritage Hunt." February 21, 1977 is Heritage Day across Canada, a day to appreciate the surviving accomplishments of earlier community builders, and to talk with the people who were young when our country was young. Each community has its own heritage visible in the buildings, craftsmanship, customs and values of older times. These treasures can be discovered, particularly if our young people will lend their considerable energies to the search. We invite school-age Canadians to record their findings in original drawings, paintings, stories, poetry and interviews, and send them to All About Us. They will be published and exhibited across Canada. All About Us and Heritage Canada are both non-government, non-profit organizations working together to encourage the apprecia- tion of Canada's heritage, and the conserva- tion of the best of our built and natural environment. Please send Materials 21., jut your community's heritage or write for an information kit to All About Us, Box 1985, Ottawa, Cahada, KIP 5R5. We want to discover how our young people view their country, for it is they who Will carry the good things of the past and present into the future. Heritage Day is a time when people of all ages can share in appreciating their own heritage. Join the Celebration! Betty Nickerson National Coordinator All About Us Pierre Berton Acting Chairt an Heritage Canada I was ' I'm on my knees -- to Marie. See me, Marie, down, scraping and bowing. Asking for pardon. I'm making full confession. Sin number one. I used the wrong word when I was talking last week about the way the old timers kept warm. Remember? I said the Meyer family used two large umbrellas to keep off the wind as they drove along in their cutter. I wrote those umbrellas were made of heavy canvas. Now, anyone with any sense knows those umbrellas weren't made of canvas. Marie, you wouldn't say a thing like that, would you? But I would. I checked the tape. When I talked with you I had my thin recorder running -- lust to make sure I'd be accurate. Well, inaccurate I was. Stupid I was. And I want to make sure that no one's goi ng to think Marie's stupid for making such a statement.It's all my mistake. On tape Marie says the wind umbrellas are made of sturdy cotton. Tightly woven cotton. So what's this idea of mine? Heavy canvas. How could I ever say a thing like that? Of course that does get us into what exactly is the difference between sturdy cotton and canvas, but no matter. I set the record straight, -- with apologies. A tightly woven cotton material. But even more important. Sin number 2. It's not that I wasn't right in my reporting. It's just I didn't use much tact. Things may be true, but that doesn't mean they have to be said things like long winter underwear, and especially dirty underwear; and more especially, your own family's underwear. I know, Marie. We shouldn't hang our dirty underwear on the line for everyone to see. Of course, the fact we all wear underwear and that it all gets dirty has nothing to do with it. Some things are best left unspoken. I'm on my knees, Marie. My apology. Please don't stop talking to me. You're one of the best story tellers around these parts. I couldn't stand it if you'd stop reminiscing with me anymore. Honest. I want to wash To he editor hi 1970 I began an exhaustive search for ancestry on my father's side since he died of hereditary nephritis in 1958 and it has affected several of my sisters as well as their Children. His father, George Henry Lawson, was born 1863 in Kinburn, Hullett ToWnShip, Huron County, Ontario, the son of John Lawson and Margaret Patterson. In 1864 they went to Hancock Co., Illinois where Margaret had a sister ISabelle, the wife of George Pease. John and Margaret. later moved to Clay Co.; Kansas where they were soon joined by her brother James Patterson and Wife Isabell Watt of Morris Township, Huron Co., Ontario. Margaret WAS daug hter of John FiattersOn stupid! everything clean. Make things right again. Besides, you said it yourSelf. Clean underwear is warmer than the dirty kind. So I promise.I'll come clean. Try to warm things up between us. But, gee, Marie, I'm surprised at you. Getting all upset over some dirt. I never figured you were like all those women I see on the T.V.commercials. Those housewives seem to have only one thing on their mind.CLEAN. CLEAN . CLEAN. If y ou bell eyed all the ads, the only , thing the housewife's after is dirt. There she is. Scrubbing and waxing the floors. Wasting all her smiles and ecstacies on , clean floors. Forget about the hushand and kids. Or she's needling her husband in. the basement about his "wreck" idom. Or she's spraying some deodorant in the bathroom. Rubbing out some ring-around• the collar. Or wiping, off grease from a grimy oven. Good heavens, you'd start to think according to the Gospel of T.V. that cleanliness is next .to godliness. But that's not in the Bible', folks, no joke. That's a bit straight out of Ben F rankli n's Poor Richard's Almanac. And I'm not buying it. Life isn't all about garbage in green bags or the Man from Glad or some white knight on a charger come to rescue me from this world of dirt. Dirt's not bad at all. Well, an excess, yes. But I am made of dust. And to dust I'll return. So I'm not spending all my life trying to convince everyone I'm properly tubbed, rubbed and scrubbed. Or fitfully lauhdered, deodorized and sanitized to some adman's perfect*. Forget it. I'll try to stay relatively clean. Use soap. Take my shower. Change my socks and shorts. But I'm not putting myself on a clean chart -- take a bath because it's Saturday night. Or shine my shoes because it's Sunday morning. I'll come clean when I'm dirty -- and when I'm ready. I'm confessing all this to you, Marie. Let's let bygones be bygones. Please Marie. I'm on my knees. And they're getting dirty,. just so I can put myself back into your clean graces again. Looks for relatives and Margaret Bryce' and her father died in Wingham in 1885As far as can be determined, her sister Agnes, wife•of Charles Granger and her sister Grace, wife of Edward Cash stayed in Huron Co., Ontario. Also her brothers, William and Michael C. with'his wife Mary Ann and children Rebecca, Johtl, Michael, William and Margaret and JameS stayed around Wingham. I ani very interested in any information on the Lawson, Patterson; Bryce, Pease; Granger, Cash, Watt, Canipbell, Young, Nicol, Dean, Setitheriand and other related iatnilieS, Write to Richard LawSon, Sr., Box Clifton, Kansas, 66037, U.S.A. Sincerely; Richard D. iawson, Sr.